Flood Toll (Universal Newsreel, Feb 1953)

Description

The original release sheet reads: 1. FLOOD TOLL / NORTH SEA RECEDES WITH HAVOC IN WAKE: HOLLAND - As flood waters grudgingly return to the North Sea, the courageous Dutch count their nearly 1,400 dead, as helicopters of the U.S. Army spearhead rescue operations in isolated areas. Drugs are rushed to ward off the grim specter of epidemics. Refugee centers are organized as the thousands of homeless stream in. 2. MADAGASCAR CYCLONE: MADAGASCAR - Cyclone winds and torrential rains devastate two of the island's most prosperous provinces. Two-thirds of the area's homes are levelled, communications disrupted, commerce crippled, by the gale's fury. 3. DULLES OPTIMISTIC IN NATO REPORT: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and MSA Chief Stassen return from a flying visit to Europe to report cautious optimism on the European Defense Community, to President Eisenhower. 4A/B. TRUMAN DINNER: MISSOURI - The home folks at Independence do themselves proud in a welcome-home dinner for their most famous citizen, the man who is now just plain Mister Harry S. Truman. / MARDI GRAS: ITALY - It's Mardi Gras in Viareggio, time for one of the continent's most elaborate pre-Lenten festivals. A hilarious parade of gargantuan effigies, and grotesque walking statues. There's mirth and merry-making for all. 5A/B. SPORTS - PEE-WEE HOCKEY: WASHINGTON - America's newest little league sport. Regularly scheduled games at Tacoma's Ice Palace see hard-fought battles on skates by dead-serious youngsters, playing this fast-paced game like veterans. / RODEO: CALIFORNIA - The 13th edition of Palm Springs' rodeo. A clown MC's proceedings, helps get one cowpoke off a hot seat astride a beefy Brahmin. Another gets a bum steer―Laugh, Clown, laugh!

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library